To optimize our health and well being the ideal balance of food and food residue in the body is 80 alkaline and 20 acidic this is largely determined by the food we eat as foods are either acid forming or alkaline forming this is not to be confused with the immediate acidity of a food lemons for example maybe considered as acid forming but lemons once metabolised actually leave an alkaline residue in the body lifestream barley grass is full of natural ionic minerals that help to keep th